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Puzzle Page answers for August! How did you do?

29th July 2022 by Shamus Sillar 3 Min Read

https://expatliving.sg/puzzle-page-answers-for-august-how-did-you-do/

Here you’ll find the answers to our Puzzle Pages in the August issue of Expat Living magazine. If you love quiz questions and puzzles and you’d like to make sure you get them every month, don’t forget to subscribe to Expat Living!

Puzzle Page Answers for August – Page 1

Q&A

#1 What does the Y stand for in VIBGYOR?
#2 Who is the patron saint of Ireland?
#3 What is sabrage? (Hint: it’s something to do with an alcoholic drink.)
#4 In what years did World War I begin and end?
#5 Which town is home to carton family The Simpsons?
#6 What’s the name for golf clubs that are designed to hit the ball a long way, either from tees or fairways?
#7 Which three countries border Luxembourg?
#8 What is deoxyribonucleic acid better known as?
#9 Featuring in the recent fourth series of Stranger Things is the 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” by which British singer/songwriter?
#10 Which tech company, starting with “S”, is South Korea’s largest?

Answers:

#1 Yellow
#2 Saint Patrick
#3 A technique for opening a champagne bottle with a saber, used for ceremonial occasions
#4 1914 and 1918
#5 Springfield
#6 Woods
#7 Belgium, France and Switzerland
#8 DNA
#9 Kate Bush
#10 Samsung

SUDOKU

3 1 7  8 4 2  6 9 5
8 9 5  6 3 7  1 4 2
6 2 4  1 5 9  3 7 8

9 6 8  2 7 5  4 1 3
5 4 1  9 6 3  2 8 7
7 3 2  4 8 1  9 5 6

1 5 6  3 9 8  7 2 4
2 8 3  7 1 4  5 6 9
4 7 9  5 2 6  8 3 1

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: readymade

Others:
aery, army, demy, dray, dyad, dyed, dyer, eddy,
eery, eyed, eyer, eyra, yard, yare, year, deary, dryad,
emery, rayed, ready, redye, reedy, drayed, dreamy,
redyed, remedy, yarded, daymare, dramady, dramedy,
daydream

KENKEN

5 3 1 2 4
4 5 2 3 1
3 2 4 1 5
1 4 3 5 2
2 1 5 4 3

puzzle answers for expat living

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

FIND A WORD

Here are the 15 Cockney slang terms and their meanings:

Butcher’s Hook – look
China Plate – mate
Barney Rubble – trouble
Brahms and Liszt – pissed
Pete Tong – wrong
Bag of Fruit – suit
Frog and Toad – road
Baked Bean – queen
Pig’s Ear – beer
Pat Malone – alone
Pork Pies – lies
Donkey’s Ears – years
Barnet Fair – hair
Ruby Murray – curry
Dog and Bone – phone

LETTER JUGGLE

Move a letter from the left-hand word to the right-hand word to create two new words (so, “mince” and “path” become “mine” and “patch”)

Answers

Pan – Debit
Hose – Pound
Fake – Gloat
Father – Create
Pain – Trampled
Have – Bloat
Gaze – Floods
Mined – Wadding
Bacon – Event
Boom – Lilt

RULERS AND EMPIRES

Match the famous ruler with their empire

Answers

Catherine the Great – Russian
Nero – Roman
Empress Dowager Cixi – Qing
Haile Selassie I – Ethiopian
Charlemagne – Holy Roman
Alexander the Great – Macedonian
Victoria – British
Hatshepsut – Egyptian
Genghis Khan – Mongol
Moctezuma I – Aztec

TWO-WORD SONGS

Pair a word on the left with one on the right to form the name of a popular song

Answers:

Blinding Lights
Bad Romance
Rocket Man
Brown Sugar
Penny Lane
My Sharona
Dancing Queen
Dance Monkey
Wild Thing
Paradise City

THE RIDDLER

 Try to decipher these three rebuses – each one is a common phrase

#1

HANY
HAEY
HAEY
HADY
HALY
HAEY

#2

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

#3

TTTTIIIIMMMMEEEE
AB DE

 Answers:

#1 Needle in a haystack
#2 What goes up must come down
#3 Long time, no see


Liked this? Read on for more fun puzzle pages and trivia:

20 quirky facts about Singapore
The great Travel Guide quiz

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Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.

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